March 29, 2005
My blog got reviewed!
Posted by Jess in
Geek Humor
A new blog in RI consists of marketing tips. I’m still not really sure who runs it, but it’s not really that important to the story here. As one of his blogs (I do know it’s a 'he', but it will all make sense later!), he reviewed the advertising potential of the blogs.
As a starting point to find some local blogs, he headed to SNEBloggers.com, (Southern New England bloggers) and picked five blogs to review, mine included.
As my favorite comedian Mitch Hedberg did on his site when he released his first CD, I would now like to review his review.
"Briefly, I'll review the premise: these reviews examine area blogs to determine what value they might have to advertisers, and what types of businesses might use them."
I don’t think I'd be keen on advertising on this site. While I'm not going to rule it out, at the moment I've got no desire at all for that.
Each of this edition's five entries will include the blog's pluses, minuses, what types of businesses might want to advertise with them, and an overall "ad-worthiness" ranking of 1 to 5. I can't emphasize enough that I'm not judging these blogs on innate quality, just on their advertising potential. The randomly chosen blogs might not have any desire to include advertisements, and if so, they can feel free to denounce me to the blogosphere.
With a statement that like sir, I would never denounce you to the blogosphere, rather I will now profess my respect to you. Nicely done!
After going through a bunch of blogs that aren't mine...
An interesting personal blog with a good dose of computer talk mixed in, the site is ostensibly co-written by a husband and wife team.
Geez. In one sentence, he managed to say what I've been trying to figure out the best way to put it for years.
However, it took me ten minutes to find an article written by Matt, leaving me to figure that Jess, much like my wife, is firmly in charge. (Something about us whipped Rhode Island husbands...)
Yeah, it takes us about ten minutes, too. At least he gave us a couple articles a few weeks ago. Here's hoping they continue! And, as we like to laugh, (or at least I do, now that I think of it), Matt's not whipped because I say he's not. Got it?
Pluses: The site has a lot of content, whether you just like a humorous look at women and sci-fi or something more technical. The writing is good, the formatting is good, and the use of pictures breaks up the text nicely. The gaming section has good advertising potential.
Wow, those are a lot of pluses. Again, nixing the advertising potential, at least he found the gaming section.
Minuses: It's a personal blog, which has its drawbacks, and a lot of the technical content will only have a limited appeal.
Well, the technical content will have a limited appeal to technical people. Um, I'm pretty sure that's the point.
Will Appeal to: Technies, gamers, whipped husbands. Local computer and video game stores would be the most likely advertisers.
Yup, see, I was right! Though I said technical people, not "technies". He makes it sound like a derogatory word. And it will appeal to whipped husbands if they are allowed to read it, remember.
Overall Advertising Potential: 3 out of 5. This is pretty good for a personal blog...just goes to show you that good writing and a specific focus counts for a lot.
Again with the "good writing" bit. This guy's OK in my book! Er, blog.
Overall Reviewing Potential: 4 out of 5. This is pretty good for a personal blog review. It just goes to show that telling the author they write well counts for a lot.
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Whipped husbands? is that not redundant like Jumbo Shrimp and Military Intelligence?:-)
Congrats on the review!
Jumbo shrimp and military intelligence aren't reducndant. They're contradictions. Oxymorons.
Whipped husband is a redundancy, like "crooked politician" and "Windows crash".
-rich
LOL!
Straight from the Department of Redundancy Department.
Quote: "And it will appeal to whipped husbands if they are allowed to read it, remember".
LOL!!!
R -
You know what I meant to say...just could not get the word out right..must be too whipped....
